Single-walled tubulin ring polymers.

abstract：:In this study, we identified and chemically synthesized three cationic and amphipathic peptides (Glycinin-17, BCAS-16, and BCBS-11) from soybean proteins. These peptides had high isoelectric points, high positive net charges, and included multiple hydrophobic amino acids. Subsequently, we identified multiple functions...

journal_title：Biopolymers

authors： Taniguchi M,Saito K,Nomoto T,Namae T,Ochiai A,Saitoh E,Tanaka T

更新日期：2017-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although many anticancer drugs exert their biological activity by forming DNA interstrand crosslinks (ICLs), the thermodynamics of biologically relevant long crosslinked DNAs has not been intensively studied in contrast to short duplexes. Here, we carry out computer modeling of the shift of melting temperature of long...

journal_title：Biopolymers

authors： Chang CL,Lando DY,Fridman AS,Hu CK

更新日期：2012-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Second-generation dendrimers have been prepared on solid phase by successive additions of branched polyproline building blocks starting from two different branching units anchored to the solid support. The preparation of Pro-rich building blocks was carried out by stepwise solid-phase synthesis and their iterative add...

journal_title：Biopolymers

authors： Sanclimens G,Crespo L,Giralt E,Royo M,Albericio F

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Guanine-rich sequences are able to form quadruplexes consisting of G-quartet structural units. Quadruplexes play an important role in the regulation of gene expression and have therapeutic and biotechnological potential. The HIV-1 integrase inhibitor, (GGGT)4 , and its variants demonstrate unusually high thermal stabi...

journal_title：Biopolymers

authors： Lomidze L,Kelley S,Gogichaishvili S,Metreveli N,Musier-Forsyth K,Kankia B

更新日期：2016-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The absorption, CD, and fluorescence emission spectra, and the fluorescence emission and depolarization lifetimes of the human granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor (hGM-CSF) and related peptides previously tested for their immunological activity, were measured in water at various pHs and temperatures to ob...

journal_title：Biopolymers

authors： Casté L,Zandomeneghi M,Houben JL,Rovero P,Pegoraro S,Revoltella PR,Brochon JC

更新日期：1995-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Translational GTPases (trGTPases) play key roles in facilitating protein synthesis on the ribosome. Despite the high degree of evolutionary conservation in the sequences of their GTP-binding domains, the rates of GTP hydrolysis and nucleotide exchange vary broadly between different trGTPases. EF-Tu, one of the best-ch...

journal_title：Biopolymers

authors： Maracci C,Rodnina MV

更新日期：2016-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Electronic absorbance and fluorescence titrations are used to probe the interaction of chlorobenzylidine with DNA. The binding of chlorobenzylidine to DNA results in hypochromism, a small shift to a longer wavelength in the absorption spectra, and emission quenching in the fluorescence spectra. These spectral characte...

journal_title：Biopolymers

authors： Zhong W,Yu JS,Huang W,Ni K,Liang Y

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report on an unrestrained molecular dynamics simulation of the flavin mononucleotide (FMN)-RNA aptamer. The simulated average structure maintains both cross-strand and intermolecular FMN-RNA nuclear Overhauser effects from the nmr experiments and has all qualitative features of the nmr structure including the G10-U...

journal_title：Biopolymers

authors： Schneider C,Sühnel J

更新日期：1999-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The experimental thermodynamic data for the dissolution of five simple hydrocarbon molecules in water were combined with the solute-solvent interaction energy from a computer simulation study to yield data on the enthalpy change of solvent reorganization. Similar data were generated for dissolving these same solute mo...

journal_title：Biopolymers

authors： Lee B

更新日期：1991-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two-dimensional nmr spectra [correlated spectroscopy (COSY), homonuclear Hartmann-Hahn (HOHAHA), nuclear Overhauser effect spectroscopy (NOESY)] have been observed for cross-linked lysozyme, a chemically modified lysozyme derivative with an extra ester cross-link between residues E35 and W108. Eight shifted cross-peak...

journal_title：Biopolymers

authors： Noda Y,Fukuda Y,Segawa S

更新日期：1997-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The role of phosphorylation in stabilizing the N-termini of alpha-helices is examined using computer simulations of model peptides. The models comprise either a phosphorylated or unphosphorylated serine at the helix N-terminus, followed by nine alanines. Monte Carlo/stochastic Dynamics simulations were performed on th...

journal_title：Biopolymers

authors： Smart JL,McCammon JA

更新日期：1999-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The presence of non-native kinetic traps in the free energy landscape of a protein may significantly lengthen the overall folding time so that the folding process becomes unreliable. We use a computational model alpha-helical hairpin peptide to calculate structural free energy landscapes and relate them to the kinetic...

journal_title：Biopolymers

authors： Chapagain PP,Gerstman BS

更新日期：2006-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：:GSK3β plays an important role in many physiological functions; dysregulated GSK3β is involved in human diseases such as diabetes, cancer, and Alzheimer's disease. This study uses MD simulations to determine the interaction between GSK3β and a peptide derived from GSKIP, a novel GSK3β interacting protein. Results show ...

journal_title：Biopolymers

authors： Tang XN,Lo CW,Chuang YC,Chen CT,Sun YC,Hong YR,Yang CN

更新日期：2011-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The physicochemical characteristics of the green fluorescent protein (GFP), including the thermodynamic properties (entropy, enthalpy, Gibbs' free energy, heat capacity), normal mode vibrations, and atomic fluctuations, were investigated. The Gaussian 03 computational chemistry program was employed for normal mode ana...

journal_title：Biopolymers

authors： Krasnenko V,Tkaczyk AH,Tkaczyk ER,Farkas O,Mauring K

更新日期：2005-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：:In Monte Carlo simulations of polymeric chains, the chains are most often represented as spheres, or cylinders with flat ends. In this methodological paper, we adopt a representation of the chains as spherocylinders (continuous cylinders ending in semispheres). With such a representation the testing for chain overlap,...

journal_title：Biopolymers

authors： Yeramian E,Schaeffer F,Caudron B,Claverie P,Buc H

更新日期：1989-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Different hexameric forms of insulin have been crystallized from a variety of conditions. In the presence of 1% phenol, 1.0 M sodium chloride, and at a pH of 8.5, a rhombohedral form is produced with two monomers in the asymmetric unit, space group R3, a = 79.92 A and c = 40.39 A. The structure has been solved and ref...

journal_title：Biopolymers

authors： Smith GD,Dodson GG

更新日期：1992-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The currently understood function for Ras in signal transduction is in mediating the transmission of signals from external growth factors to the cell nucleus. Mutated forms of this GTP-binding protein are found in 30% of human cancers with particularly high prevalence in colon and pancreatic carcinomas. These mutation...

journal_title：Biopolymers

authors： Qian Y,Sebti SM,Hamilton AD

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have utilized a de novo designed two-stranded α-helical coiled-coil template to display conserved α-helical epitopes from the stem region of hemagglutinin (HA) glycoproteins of influenza A. The immunogens have all the surface-exposed residues of the native α-helix in the native HA protein of interest displayed on t...

journal_title：Biopolymers

authors： Jiang Z,Gera L,Mant CT,Hirsch B,Yan Z,Shortt JA,Pollock DD,Qian Z,Holmes KV,Hodges RS

更新日期：2016-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:With the availability of accurate methods to treat the electrostatic long-range interactions, molecular dynamics simulations have resulted in refined dynamical models of the structure of the hydration shell around RNA motifs. The models reviewed here range from basic Watson-Crick to more specific noncanonical base pai...

journal_title：Biopolymers

authors： Auffinger P,Westhof E

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The conformational heterogeneity of several quinoxaline antibiotics, a class of naturally occurring quinoxaline peptides with antitumor properties, and their synthetic analogues was investigated in polar and nonpolar solvents by high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) with uv photodiode array detection, uv-absor...

journal_title：Biopolymers

authors： Alfredson TV,Maki AH,Waring MJ

更新日期：1991-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Using high precision densimetric and ultrasonic measurements, we have determined, at 25 degrees C, the apparent molar volumes PhiV and the apparent molar compressibilities PhiK(S) of four nucleic acid duplexes-namely, the DNA duplex, poly(dIdC)poly(dIdC); the RNA duplex, poly(rA)poly(rU); and the two DNA/RNA hybrid du...

journal_title：Biopolymers

authors： Chalikian TV,Völker J,Srinivasan AR,Olson WK,Breslauer KJ

更新日期：1999-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Peptide-bond modification via N-hydroxylation has been explored as a strategy for metal coordination to induce conformational rigidity and orient side chains for specific molecular recognition. N-Hydroxyamides were prepared by reacting N-benzyloxyamino acid esters or amides with Fmoc-AA-Cl/AgCN (Fmoc: 9-fluorenylmetho...

journal_title：Biopolymers

authors： Ye Y,Liu M,Kao JL,Marshall GR

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Amyloid fibrils are considered to play causal roles in the pathogenesis of amyloid-related degenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's disease, type II diabetes mellitus, the transmissible spongiform encephalopathies, and prion disease. The mechanism of fibril formation is still hotly debated and remains an important op...

journal_title：Biopolymers

authors： Chen Y,He YJ,Wu M,Yan G,Li Y,Zhang J,Chen HF

更新日期：2010-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Spontaneous cortical activity of single neurons is often either dismissed as noise, or is regarded as carrying no functional significance and hence is ignored. Our findings suggest that such concepts should be revised. We explored the coherent population activity of neuronal assemblies in primary sensory area in the a...

journal_title：Biopolymers

authors： Grinvald A,Arieli A,Tsodyks M,Kenet T

更新日期：2003-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pig citrate synthase (PCS) can be used as a model enzyme to gain some insight into the structural basis of protein thermostability. The thermal unfolding characteristics of the specific secondary structure elements within PCS were monitored in detail by following changes in its amide I band components. The result of o...

journal_title：Biopolymers

authors： Severcan F,Haris PI

更新日期：2003-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hemochromatosis factor E (HFE) is a member of class I MHC family and plays a significant role in the iron homeostasis. Denaturation of HFE induced by guanidinium chloride (GdmCl) was measured by monitoring changes in [θ]222 (mean residue ellipticity at 222 nm), intrinsic fluorescence emission intensity at 346 nm (F346...

journal_title：Biopolymers

authors： Khan P,Parkash A,Islam A,Ahmad F,Hassan MI

更新日期：2016-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Porins from outer membrane of Gram-negative bacteria have a highly stable structure. Our previous studies on porin from Paracoccus denitrificans showed that the outer membrane protein porin is extremely stable toward heat, pH, and chemical denaturants. The major question we have addressed in this paper is whether the ...

journal_title：Biopolymers

authors： Sukumaran S,Hauser K,Maier E,Benz R,Mäntele W

更新日期：2006-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To obtain information about the structure-activity relationships of analgesic peptides, we modified the previously reported tripeptide, H-Lys-Pro-Thr-OH (C). The proline part in C was replaced with various analogues of unconventional amino acids [(3aS, 7aS)-octahydroindole-2-carboxylic acid (Oic), (S,S,S,)-2-azabicicl...

journal_title：Biopolymers

authors： Caliendo G,Greco G,Grieco P,Perissutti E,Santagada V,Ialenti A,Maffia P,Albrizio S,Santini A

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The kinetics of the hydrodynamic volume change associated with the unfolding and refolding of a globular protein can be observed using high performance size exclusion chromatography. Chromatographic profiles that evidence such dynamics can be simulated using equations in which chromatographic partitioning and the conf...

journal_title：Biopolymers

authors： Shalongo W,Jagannadham M,Stellwagen E

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The conformation of basic fatty acid binding protein from chicken liver and the binding properties of the apo protein toward 11-dansylamino-undecanoic acid were investigated by CD and fluorescence spectroscopy. In one set of experiments the binding process was followed by the appearance of induced optical activity in ...

journal_title：Biopolymers

authors： Schievano E,Quarzago D,Spadon P,Monaco HL,Zanotti G,Peggion E

更新日期：1994-07-01 00:00:00